, 1887-09-01
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD.
HE AND MANDY RESTING ON THE
SHORE OF LAKE COMO.
The Judge Recites Some Lines Which
Mandy Recognizes-PIug Hats Plenty
and ART scarce ia SIiIan-The Climate
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and .frt scarce IN M1lan-1he Climate
Uusuitsd so the Wayback Congressman.
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On LAEE CoNo, Italy, July "a
We are 1T rest by the beautiful shores of
Como's lovely waters, and as sit out Oh the
bench i'll front of the hotel with Mandy by my
side. gazing on to the raPturous picture,
can't help but become poetic, and occasionally
] throw or line or two, Mr.. Editor, sort of
to fill up with, you know. ghis morning,
after haSty breakfast retired to by apart
meuts, leaving Mandy down staigs, and not
long afterward ] found her on oaE bench
under the tree by the lake.
Mandy" says. going over to bsrr "all
water is poetic in this sunny cline. LiStsn TO
what haYC wrote:
a deep vale,
Shut out by Alpine hills from the rude world,
Near clear Lake margined by fruits of gold
And whispering, mI rites:
ilL5Sin, S''lt;-~t skies, COudlcSS.
save with rare ami rtsrate shadders,
paar.- !litn; to eternal heaven its marbed
walls
.'rsm ;l,>sy bower of coolest foliage nuSi.
81 WII. birds
"Dii YOU write That all by yore5elf.' she
sayS la nI- inmrrcent like.
As Spnutnnyio"S, Mandy" says TO lIer,
"as l--e -tre:,ms Of cleer warter bust from
thu :;li>i,crs Of the mountain; rs unStuddyed
rs the huIrlS sings among the green bows of
tiIs>e here Olive and orange trees. That's
wliat makes poetry 80 bewtiful, my dear. But
why ask the question, loves" contnnered,
'4tIpiu her III courtly fashion ON the sholder.
Because, BASH" she says, "it sounded to
me like old times, away back yonder, you
know when | was a silly gal and played actor
pIrf> FRIDAY afternoons at school, One weak
the R"v. Obadier Beasly, of Wayback that IS
now ar,l me took some poetry where there
WAS y ln'iy named PIwtcen Lions, and Gland
Ch.-- n aud Ciaud told Pawleen that very
sr.nI.. ...n-. ~ sholr as l am Mandy Waxem
ar.n I:ni Mainly Beasly. Mebbe You kin fool
ol..,r women with poetry, Bash, but I've
.n"nt7l You too long, and you ought to
l.nnwtti better. It's purity, though, and you
f''n I''ai it over agin for old ank signs sake" ="
r,;s'i Ii over a3in, of course, but wasn't
thinA III of poetry. 1 was reflectin on the
III sIakrs n man. partickerly married man,
Is likely to make when he thinks he can
irtch IL buri by putin salt oil its tail, and,
moreover. what bunglin sort of lyin congress
men does when they go outside OF politics OF
craftsmanship S%s
We hsse been in this beautiful country for
Il Few days reco0peratin as il wair, after our
long journey through Italy, and preparin
u.i' rises for pasters new III the hire latitIldes
- here from Milan, which is under
ihnty mile from Lake Como, but never put
.ii!an and Como together in my mind like
do New York and Snrrytogy. Somehow
GiwayS read about Milan in the geography
and Como IN poetry, ANA / kinder thought
passengers for Como took wings some place
or oih-r, and lit thar after hoatin a spell on
golden clouds in azher heavens But they
.9s1
Milan depot, and an hour and half later
they air il: n fairy land, whar green hillsides
comes down TO drink OF blue waters; whar
the pink checked rose lifts up its face to meet
the kisses of the orange bloom; whar lofty
mountings, seered by age, wares silver crowns
urna inHr Urows, and ON ther feet ware SAN
,lels OF olive wood and lemon, and whar all
mater sets screen upon tue land er rocks upon
the wave, so bewtifu! and still that heaven
seems 10 have slopt over and poarei half its
iove'yncss on this bewtv spot
ASin l have flew the track and got into
poetry. as tue above goes to show. It is nv
mater and / can't help it. even il Mandy is
asin me ON thii pint. What want to do
now r 10 dr"p poetry and take up jogrsphy
and statistics in few brief but pointed re-
marks ou Milan. .#s
In previous letter 10 yore valuable Jour-
nal >Iscae about the gra,iule dyin' out of tho
pus hat the Traveller got further away
from I-nnion. The funeral procession held
on till we got to Milan, and thar it ended, or
-Httcr thar was gap i'll it. l seen more well
dressed men with plug hats on i'll that town
than any place in Italy. and I seen more
buisneSs American civilization thar in fifteen
minutes, than in Rome, Naples, Venice ami
Florence combined.
Milan amt much OH art. and wllar art is
.kerrce, LuisuesS civilization is bound TO
I thrive.
They've got one church in Milan that bare;
/ the same relation TO the city, that the Fus.
Rsp-I,r mcctin' house in Wtyback bares to
Wa. back; refer to the cathedral. 1t is tho
greatest piece OF arkiteckturruI gimcrackery
/ have ever saw, and cost enough mou.y to
,,rry cry cnngrc SSiunal election in our
I crate and Curious republic fer dozen wears
; can mighty easy STE why politics is at se,.h
.!isr' unit in this affect despotisnI, when So
.nich money Is waisteG OH religion Tho
o.her churches in Milan air as pore and mean
( aS iile stables and oatbuiIdins on n moryid-
.;,d farm, and the cathedral minded mo ri,ht
along of one hig pertater IN Il hill takin an
! the sap and substance from the little ones.
Mi an is a lively place and don't git her
+ twin out of the past like some other Italian
4 towns. Her leadm' square, the Plata del
Duumo they cali it, is as purity as any in
/ Urop, and Is lit up with electricity every
. night. All tile street Cars center thar too
and nI..n can't git lost 10 save his nec., q,
: Ia. only keeps in sight Of n car truck Thar
: nrv pavements on most of the streets.
bin strait out from house to house without
rurirtone nr gutter, and the people walk in
th'. nitilr al lie strutt about rs fr. Guent rs
tiry do "n the Sidewalks T"is habii Ihous,